[Click on photos on right for larger images.] My grandmother Sara we also knew as "Nana." This listing indicated that she was born in Pa., but I'm not really sure of this. My memory is that her family were from near West Chester, Pa., so I'm assuming she was born in that state. She married Samuel Cann, and the couple lived in a brown-shingled house on the Terraces, in the Mt. Washington section of Baltimore, MD. They had three children, Ruth being the oldest, Dorothy (my mother, born Jan. 28, 1911), and the youngest, John, born around 1924. Sara was a devout & religious person, and also was supportive of the temperance movement. She was instrumental in my being sent to Sunday School at a small Presbyterian church in Mt. Washington, just off of Smith Ave. which she apparently attended. However, in old age she took to having a glass of wine with or after dinner "for medicinal purposes" which my parents found quite amusing. When I was a boy, she worked with me to help me learn my mutiplication tables when I stayed over in her small 2nd. floor apartment in the Stoneleigh section of Baltimore. Toward the end of her life she was afflicted with glaucoma, and lost one of her eyes to this disorder. It was replaced with a glass eye, which was the current medical practice at the time. She later got cancer, and was moved to the Will Rogers Hospital in Saranac Lake, NY. This move was apparently in view of the fact that her older daughter Ruth had married Carl Merkel, a surgeon, and both were raising their family in Saranac Lake. Sara Cann passed away there on Dec. 14th., 1966. The funeral service at Druid Ridge Cemetery was led by the Rev. Nelson Viese, who was the pastor at the small presbyterian church off of Smith Ave., in the Mt. Washington section of Baltimore. She had one sister, Mary Luranna Jones Goff, who passed away in 1947.